The assassination of former prime minister of Shinzo Abe: End of an era of Indo-Japan relationship 

The assassination of former prime minister of Shinzo Abe: End of an era of Indo-Japan relationship 

Context:

The former prime minister was shot dead yesterday by a person while giving his speech during the election campaign. It was the first assassination of a sitting or former Japanese Premier since the days of pre-war militarism in the 1930s. After this assassination, an era of Indo-Japanese relationships ended 

Introduction 

Sinzo Abe was one of the most popular prime ministers of Japan. During his time, India has signed many bilateral agreements (Economical) . during the time of Abe, The Quad, the ASEAN-led forums, the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor, and the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure all benefited from his contributions. Japan has been our friend for a long time and in the pacific ocean, against China japan would be our friend in the future also. The Indo japanese relationship should also be strengthened in the future as the legacy of the Abe

Abe was very close to Indian Indian culture. He liked the ancient philosophy of India . therefore during his visit to India, he went to varanasi, a cultural centre of India. Swami vivekanand was the one of the ideals of the Abe . Abe described the articulation of the geopolitical construct of the Indo-Pacific as the “Arc of Freedom and Prosperity” on the outer rim of Eurasia, and the Quad.

Role of Abe in Japanese strength 

Sinjio Abe was a great statesman of Japan. During his time, Japan had touched a new height of prosperity and development. In 2013, when Mr. Abe became the prime minister of Japan for the second term, he had promised the public of japan to provide them the economic stability and to provide rid of political and economical instability. Before resigning his post because of a health issue in 2020, he had severed Japan as the country’s longest period PM. In his speech, he stated that Japan has never been a two-tier country. There are some prime objectives of the japan’s foren policy 

  1. To make Japan a leader in the rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific region 
  2. To bring prosperity to the pacific and Indian ocean 
  3. To support and promote democratic values in the world 
  4. to step up Japan to become “a guardian of the global commons” in an increasingly contested maritime domain
  5.  To work closely with “like-minded democracies”, such as the U.S., India, Australia, and South Korea.

The History of India Japan tie

  • The India japan ties are 70 years old. After the post woorld wars, the first five decades had been the era of the India japan friendship. After the defeat of Japan in a second world war, when a peace treaty was signed with Japan ( San Francisco Peace Treaty) in 1951, India was the party of this treaty because this treaty was signed with defeated countries to demoralize them. Delhi signed a separate treaty with japan and never considered Japan a war criminal. Nehru’s decision to accept Japanese Overseas Development Aid, the first country to do so, also generated a lot of goodwill in the bilateral relationship. We took a lot of support in the field of technology from Japan. When we started Doordarshan, the first engineer was trained for the Doordarshan by japan. Our car manufactories company Maruti first done tie-up with the Japanese company Suzuki and manufactured a car Maruti 800. Our other automobile company hero had also tie-up with Honda company of the japan. Atal Bihari bajpai also assigned an economical agreement with japanese Prime Ministers Yoshiro Mori in 2000 
  • Therefore, this Indo-Japanese relationship was boosted during the time of Sinzo Abe during the last two decades. Japanese funding for ambitious projects such as the Mumbai-Delhi Industrial Corridor and the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train. He and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh upgraded the relationship to a Special Strategic and Global Partnership. 
  • We can understand the changing nature of the Indo Japnese relationship in such a way that Japn was the one of the few country who sanctioned and condemned India when india tested a nuclear bomb in 1998  but by 2008, after a waiver to India from the Nuclear Suppliers Group following the India-US civil nuclear deal, Abe — and his Liberal Democratic Party successors — had begun to consider a similar deal with India

Conclusion 

Definitely, the death of Sinjo abe is the personal loss of India also. We lost a reliable friend in the pacific ocean. During the period of Abe, India Japanese relationship touched its hight point 

 

Yojna IAS Daily Current Affairs Hindi med 9th July

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